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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by loup-vaillant on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:06AM (#9504186)
How so? Your claim sounds "obviously false". We need an example.
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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by loup-vaillant on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:53AM (#9505459)
Scrap the scare quotes, it is obviously false. Less code in the small does imply less code in the large. It doesn't need any justification, it is a tautology: if it takes less code to write all the small things in your program, the program itself will have less code overall.

Or did I misunderstood the meaning of "less code"?

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